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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all time...Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy t...What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is...I know of no great men except those who have rendered great ...The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have co...If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. Bu...A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of p...The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks....Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most orig...Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Chri...Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one th...History is fables agreed upon....The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it f...Love truth but pardon error....I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one 'O...A witty saying proves nothing....Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amir...Love truth, but pardon error....Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth....One great use of words is to hide our thoughts....When its a question of money, everybody is of the same relig...All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds....As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue...Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they're...Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and...The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as t...It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an ...There has never been a perfect government, because men have ...Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd....Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die....When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a...People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in vers...God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh...The public is a ferocious beast - one must either chain it u...No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking....The secret of being boring is to tell everything....It is not enough to conquer one must learn to seduce....To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you m...To hold a pen is to be at war....Do well and you will have no need for ancestors....I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the d...If this world were what it seems it should be, it is clear t...Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous....Change everything except your loves....It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong....Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imag...Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absu...Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies....Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung....Better is the enemy of good....Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer ...History is little else than a picture of human crimes and mi...Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers....It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the establis...Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the w...The superfluous is very necessary....Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and e...The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves hi...In this country England it is well to kill from time to time...It is not known precisely where angels dwell-whether in the ...If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him....I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your r...Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and...If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall ...It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest ba...Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if G...Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do....Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so c...The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their...